Today's Tidbit... What Color Is Your Pair of Pants (and Jersey)?

Many of our visual images of 1920s football come from black-and-white photographs from college yearbooks, newspapers, and other periodicals. With many of those images, it is difficult to distinguish the two teams unless one has striped sleeves, socks, or they vary in the pattern of the friction strips on their jerseys.

However, people in the 1920s did not live in a black-and-white world or play football in one. They wore ribbons and waved pennants in school colors, while those on the field genera...